.NET supports asynchronous code using the
Task asynchronous programming model. However, for .NET we have decided to implement a
lazy loading feature instead of a fully asynchronous approach as we believe this gives better control to the developer.
Java supports asynchronous code using the
CompletableFuture class. For Java we have decided to implement a
lazy loading feature instead of a fully asynchronous approach as we believe this gives better control to the developer.
PHP is single-threaded and does not support non-blocking execution out of the box. The
Pipeline has no support for
asynchronous execution nor
lazy loading in PHP.
Node.js, being based on JavaScript is a fundamentally asynchronous language. As such, the
Pipeline will work in a non-blocking way by default through the use of promises.
See the node documentation for more details about blocking vs non-blocking calls.